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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights

Name: Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights
ISBN: 9781782112525

David Margolick,

176 pages
English
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Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights

David Margolick,

About this book

The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it.
Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its graphic and heart-wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the South, brought home the evils of racism as well as being an inspiring mark of resistance.
The song's powerful, evocative lyrics - written by a Jewish communist schoolteacher - portray the lynching of a black man in the South. In 1939, its performance sparked controversy (and sometimes violence) wherever Billie Holiday went. Not until sixteen years later did Rosa Parks refuse to yield her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Yet 'Strange Fruit' lived on, and Margolick chronicles its effect on those who experienced it first-hand: musicians, artists, journalists, intellectuals, students, budding activists, even the waitresses and bartenders who worked the clubs.

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